Bloomvale House, 171 Plantation Road, Bleary, Craigavon, Co. Armagh, BT63 5NN

A one and a half storey, three bay, direct entry thatched house with the front elevation constructed of roughly coursed galleted rubble blackstone and plastered alternating quoins and plinth The house is positioned behind a metal fence and small forecourt overlooking the road that travels in a south-westerly direction from Lurgan to Gilford about three miles from the former town. The building faces north-west. The thatch roof covering is contained within tiled parapet gables each of which rise to a rendered corbelled chimneystack with one pot. A further stack rises over the position of the kitchen hearth and contains three pots. The scollops at the ridge, and below the middle stack, are patterned and there is another row slightly lower down the slopes and also one row exposed at the eaves. The four-panelled entrance door, with a semi-circular Gothic-glazed fanlight, plastered surround and brick arch is flanked on either side by two 6/6 vertically sliding windows with plastered reveals and brick arches. There are moulded sash stops and the sills are narrow. The remainder of the exterior of the house is finished in coloured render. The north-east gable has a vertically sliding window at low level with sashes divided vertically into two panes, curved sash stops and is without a sill. At the upper level there is a plain sashed window with a sill of traditional depth and curved sash stops. A similar window lights the upper accommodation on the opposite (south-west) gable. At the rear starting from the south-west corner the arrangement is as follows: - A vertically sliding window with sashes divided vertically into two panes and without sash stops or sills, a raked buttress with a concrete coping, and then a similar window, but with exposed sash boxes, above the position of two concrete walled sumps. Next there is a lean-to extension with natural slate roof and metal rainwater goods. The window at the left (south west) side is vertically sliding with sashes divided vertically into two panes and without sash stops or a sill. The front (south-east) side of the extension has firstly a timber framed, ledged, braced and sheeted door and then a 6/6 vertically sliding window that is without a sill. To the right of this window there is a cast iron handle pump. The north-east side of the main house is connected to the adjoining building by means of a round-headed archway containing a timber ledged, braced and sheeted door. The main window openings retain shutters.